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@entran STATES PATENT Fincaa VVlLLlAM P. B. URICK, OF NEWARK, NEW JERSEY.

ClGAR-CAS E.

SEUILSGATION forming part of Letters Patent No. 666,781, dated January 29, 1901.

njulicatinn tiled JulyZS, 1898. Serial No. 686.662. (No model.)

To all whom, t muy concern.-

Be it known that l, `VILLIAM P. B. URICK, a citizen of the United States, and a resident of Newark, in the county of Essex and State of New Jersey, have invented certain new and useful Improvements in Cigar-Cases, of which the following is a specification.

The invention relates to improvements in cigar-bases; and it consists in the novel features and combinations hereiuafterdescri bed, and particularly pointed out in the claim.

in this application I present my invention as embodied in a pocket-case adapted to hold one cigar and composed of two elongated semicircular hinged sections, one of which is open at one end, and the other of which at the corresponding end is provided with a disk cutter which when the said sections are brought together will close the end of the case and effectually conceal the cigar within the latter.

The object of my invention is to provide a convenient means for severing the lighted end of the cigar and holding the unsmoked portion of the cigar, the said means being embodied in a suitable pocket-case within which the cigar may be placed with its lighted end projecting from the end thereof, and the cover of which case may be closed and its cutter caused thereby to sever said projecting lighted portion of the cigar and permit the same (Without handling and without having been within the case) to fall to the ground, the body of the unsmoked cigar remaining within the then closed case.

Theinvention will be fully understood from the detailed description hereinafter presented, reference being had to the accompanying drawings, in which- Figure l is a perspective view of an open case constructed in accordance with and embodying the invention, a lighted cigar being shown in the bottom section of said case by dotted lines and with its lighted portion projecting beyond the open end of said bottom section preparatory toits being severed upon the closing of the sections of the case together. Fig. 2 is a side elevation of the case,

the sections thereof being closed together. Fig. 3 is an enlarged view of the larger end of the said case, the sections of the latter being shown in their open position and their closing motion being indicated by dotted lines; and Fig. et is an enlarged central vertical longitudinal section ot' the larger end portion of the case, the sections of the latter being shown as closing upon a cigar indicated by dotted lines.

In the drawings, A B respectively designate the lower and upper sections of the cigar-case, f

Said sections being connected by hinges C and provided with any suitable catches D for conveniently locking the sect-ions in closed position.

The sections A B are preferably semicylindrical in cross-section and tapered toward one end to simulate the outline of a cigar, the other or larger end of said sections being of appropriate diameter to receive the thicker portion of a cigar.

The lower or body section A is entirely open at its larger end E and is along the edges of this end formed with the lip F to atford a receiving-groove for the sharp edges of the cutter G,Which is of disk shape and secured along about one-half of its periphery within the end of the upper or lid section B, the other half of the cutter being allowed to project beyond the edges of the section B and adapted to iit the open end E of the section A. The cutter G has all of its semicircular edge H which projects beyond the section B sharpened to act. upon the cigar to be held Within the case, and said cutter G When the sections A B are brought together forms one end of the case and effectually closes the same.

lVhen the case is to be used for holding a partly consumed cigar, the latter will be placed in the body-section A and have its lighted portion projected beyond the end E of said section, as indicated by dotted lines in Fig. 1, and thereupon the section B will be rmly closed upon the section A for the purpose of causing the cutter G to sever the lighted projecting end of the cigar and inclosing the remaining portion of the cigar Within the case, the severed lighted portion of the cigar being permitted to fall to the ground. When the sections A B of the case are closed together to hold either a whole cigar or the unconsumed portion of a cigar, the catches D will hold the said sections together, and the cutter G will close the larger end of the case, and thus the cigar or the portion of the cigar,

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as the case may be, will be securely inclosed and may with entire comfort and safety be carried in the pocket. l

It is to be noted that the cutter G is at the eXtreme end of the ease and that the lighted portion of the cigar projects beyond this end and when severed isleft wholly unsupported. The one operation of closing the case both severs the lighted end of the cigar and incloses tbe remainingrportion of the cigar, and at no time is the lighted part of the cigar within the case or any portion thereof. The cutter G is carried by one section ofthe case, and the walls of the other section of the case effectually support the cigar during the operation of the cutter. The sharpened edges of the cutter G, being' of convex semicircular Outline, will during the early portion of the closing movement of the case-sections only engage a part of the diameter of the cigar, and hence will not crush the cigar, but effect a uniform cut through the same, the lower longitudinal half of the cigar being firmly held and its exterior surfaces maintained by the section A during .the cutting operation.

This invention is not limited to details further than as denoted in the claim, it being apparent that the catches D and other details may be modified to meet the wishes of the manufacturer. ln some instances the cutter G may be independently hinged instead of rigid.

What I claim as my invention, and desire to secure by Letters Patent, is-

The cigar-case adapted to hold a whole cigar and composed of the substantiallyY semicircular hinged sections A, B, tapered at one end and of blunt configuration at the other, said sections being provided with lockingr means, the section A at its blunt end being open and terminating in the outwardly-projecting lip to form a receiving-groove outside of the plane of the interior surface of its section, and the section B at its blunt end carrying the disk cutter which closes the end of the case and enters the groove, the arrangement being such that the cigar can lie hori-y zontally within the section A with the limit of its ash-line in close proximity and register with the depressed `groove, substantially set forth.

Signed at New York, in the county1 of New York and State of New York, this 22d day of July, A. D. 1898.

VILLIAM P. B. URICK.

Witnesses:

CHAS. C. GILL, E. JAS. BELKNAP. 

